Y1 - question tags

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo, vwo
• Leerjaar 1

Welcome!

Please have a seat, take out your materials and put your bag on the floor

Lesson plan

1. Grammar time!
2. Practise
3. DIY 

"Story"time

1. You are 13 years old, aren't you? 
2. She has a lot of homework, hasn't she?
3. The bus is coming, isn't it?
4. They live in Papendrecht, don't they?
   
   
5. She doesn't like eating vegetables, does she?
6. They aren't supposed to be doing that, are they?

Tag questions

• A tag question is a short question at the end of a sentence
• We do it to check something we're almost certain of
• Often means: “toch?”, “hè”, “is het niet?”, of “of wel?”

How to make

1. Bepaal of de zin positief of negatief is 
2. Gebruik de andere voor de tag question
3. Vaak: herhaal het werkwoord
4. Maak van het onderwerp een pronoun (he, she, it etc.)

We herhalen de volgende werkwoorden:

1) to be

2) to do

3) to have

Tag questions with to be

• I’m a fast runner, aren’t I?
• You are her younger sister, aren’t you?
• Susan is her sister, isn’t she?
• Pete and Jane are good friends, aren’t they?

• I am not a bad friend, am I?
• You're not a very good football player, are you?
• He isn't very funny, is he?
• We are not that close, are we? 
  
  
• Let op met "I"!

Pronouns, not names

• In tag questions we do not use names!
  
  

1. Baseball is a very popular sport, isn't it?
2. Ron is not very nice, is he?
3.  Jake and Amy are wonderful people, aren't they?
4. Walter and Jesse aren't related, are they?

Practice

1. She’s from a small town in China, ___
2. They aren’t on their way already, ___
3. We’re late again, ___
4. I’m not the person with the tickets, ___
5. Julie isn’t an accountant, ___

KEY

1. isn’t she?
2. are they?
3. aren’t we?
4. am I?
5. is she?

Tag questions with to do

• Do I? (+) – Don’t I? (-)
• Do you? (+) – Don’t you? (-)
• Does he / does she / does it? (+) – Doesn’t he / doesn’t she / doesn’t it? (-)
• Do we? (+) – Don’t we? (-)
• Do they? (+) – Don’t they? (-)

Practice - to do

1. I like chocolate very much, ___?
2. She doesn't work in a hotel, ___?
3. They need some new clothes, ___?
4. We live in a tiny flat, ___?
5. She studies very hard every night, ___?

KEY

1. I like chocolate very much, don’t I?
2. She doesn't work in a hotel, does she?
3. They need some new clothes, don’t they?
4. We live in a tiny flat, don’t we?
5. She studies very hard every night, doesn’t she?